Fourth Annual Full-Length Playwriting Competition
[download id="3"]The Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in association with the Marigny Theatre Corporation and the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival announces a playwright's competition. The winning play from our fourth annual contest will be produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and will premier the weekend of the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13-16, 2010. Registration: There is a $10 fee for every play submitted. Participants can enter more then once. Click here to open and print the registration form in your browser. Note: you cannot complete this form online; you must print it and return the completed paper form with each of your submissions. This requires the free Adobe Acrobat Reader version 3.0 or above. Prizes: The winning entry will receive complimentary registration to the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival and a stipend of $250. Finalists: The finalists' names and titles will be announced on the Saints and Sinners website. Dates: Deadline for submission is December 31st yearly. (Entries postmarked later than December 31st will not be c onsidered) The winner will be announced in March of the following year. Entry Fees: Participants can make more then one submission. There is a $10 entry fee per submission to cover administrative costs such as copying, postage, judging, etc. Contest Guidelines: Previously produced plays ...
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First Annual Short Fiction Contest
The Saints and Sinners GLBT Literary Festivals First Annual Short Fiction Contest is soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content on the broad theme of Saints and Sinners. The contest is open to authors at all stages of their careers and to stories in all genres. The entry fee is $10 per story with a 3 story limit per author. One grand prize of $250 and two second place prizes of $50 will be awarded. In addition, the top stories will be published in an anthology from QueerMojo, an imprint of Rebel Satori Press. There will also be a book release party held during the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival in New Orleans May 13-16, 2010. The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is January 2, 2010. [download id="2"]
Save the Date: May 13-16, 2010
The 2010 Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13th -16th Michael Nava We've already begun to book an exciting program for the Festival, including literary luminaries Ann Bannon, Michael Nava, and Tim Miller. Michael Nava is the author of a seven-volume series of novels featuring a gay Latino criminal defense lawyer, Henry Rios. Published between 1988 and 2000, the Rios novels (The Little Death, Goldenboy, Howtown, The Hidden Law, The Death of Friends, The Burning Plain and Rag and Bone) earned six Lambda Literary awards and won widespread critical acclaim. In 2000, Nava was awarded the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement in gay and lesbian literature. Currently, Nava is at work on a historical novel set in an Arizona border town during the Mexican Revolution called The Children of Eve. A graduate of Stanford Law School, he has also had a distinguished career as an appellate lawyer and is currently a staff attorney for the Honorable Carlos Moreno, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court in San Francisco. Ann Bannon Ann Bannon has been called "The Queen of Lesbian Pulp Fiction" for her landmark "Beebo Brinker Chronicles," a series of five original paperback novels published by Gold Medal Books in the ...
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Download the 2010 Discount Registration Form
Please download and print out the discount registration form that lists our ticketed events. This form includes the weekend pass for all literary panels and readings, as well as ticket options for master classes, theater events, and our kick-off Book Launch Party on Thursday, May 13 to celebrate our first annual short fiction contest.
First Annual Short Fiction Contest
Soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content.
Save the Date: May 13-16, 2010
We’ve already begun to book an exciting program for the Festival, including literary luminaries Ann Bannon, Michael Nava, and Tim Miller. We hope to see you at the 8th annual Festival next year .. and we’ll keep you posted as we finalize our plans for 2010.
Writing Competitons
Fourth Annual Full-Length Playwriting Competition
The winning play from our fourth annual contest will be produced by the Marigny Theatre Corporation and will premier the weekend of the 8th annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, May 13-16, 2010.
First Annual Short Fiction Contest
Soliciting original, unpublished short stories between 5,000 and 7,000 words with GLBT content.
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Awards
The deadline for the Jim Duggins Award has passed
Award recipients to be announced by January 31. The awards recognize LGBT mid-career novelists of extraordinary talent and service to the LGBT community.
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2010 Speakers
Jim Grimsley
Jim Grimsley is an award winning playwright and author. His literary fiction includes such novels as My Drowning, Winter Birds, Dream Boy, and Comfort and Joy; his fantasy fiction includes the award winning novels Kirith Kirin and The Ordinary.
Emanuel Xavier
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, the novel Christ Like, and editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetryand Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry.
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The Festival, held over 4 days each Spring, features panel discussions and master classes on literary topics that provide a forum for authors, editors and publishers to talk about their work for the benefit of emerging writers and the enjoyment of fans of LGBT literature.
